OBJECTIVES To describe and evaluate the use of medical audit in general practice as an educational activity shared by undergraduate medical students and general practitioners. DESIGN A descriptive study, evaluated by a questionnaire survey of all participating practices and by results of completed student projects on general practice audit topics during three weeks in the first year of comple...

INTRODUCTION The focused assessment with sonography for trauma (FAST) is a commonly used and life-saving tool in the initial assessment of trauma patients. The recommended emergency medicine (EM) curriculum includes ultrasound and studies show the additional utility of ultrasound training for medical students. EM clerkships vary and often do not contain formal ultrasound instruction. Time const...

General practice-based research activity is increasing rapidly, particularly for large, collaborative, multi-centre studies. We conducted semi-structured interviews with general practitioners and other professionals at practices in the East London and the City Health Authority area, to investigate the difficulties presented by becoming involved in these studies. Interviewees' main concerns were...

While in some jurisdictions chiropractic is fully integrated in public and insurance funded health care systems, in others it is outside and considered as complementary or alternative health care. There is a paucity of data and rigorous scientific studies regarding most aspects of chiropractic practice although research activity has been increasing in recent years. We call for papers for a them...

– The DLQI is a patient-administered, 10-question, validated general dermatology quality of life questionnaire that assesses the following six domains: symptoms and feelings, daily activities, leisure, work and school, personal relationships, and treatment. The questionnaire yields a score ranging from 0 to 30, with a lower score indicating that the disease and/or treatment has less impact on a...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES In 2003, US seniors filled 42% of family practice residency positions, the lowest percentage in the specialty's recent history. We hypothesized that institutional support, contact with family medicine faculty, and faculty satisfaction would be positively related to choice of family practice and that faculty satisfaction would be negatively affected by increasing pressu...

OBJECTIVE To identify family medicine residents’ barriers to conducting high-quality research for the mandatory family medicine resident scholarly project, as well as to determine possible strategies to encourage research activity among family medicine residents. DESIGN Descriptive study using an online survey. SETTING Department of Family Medicine at the University of Ottawa in Ontario. ...

In the 1990s, with the identifi cation of hantavirus pulmonary syndrome (HPS) and the risk of occupational transmission, conservative biosafety measures in handling rodents potentially infected with hantavirus have been established for researchers in the fi eld. Recently, with the advanced knowledge about the biology and etiology of HPS and based on serological surveys for professionals who reg...

We describe the activity recognition component of the Soldier Assist System (SAS), which was built to meet the goals of DARPA’s Advanced Soldier Sensor Information System and Technology (ASSIST) program. As a whole, SAS provides an integrated solution that includes on-body data capture, automatic recognition of soldier activity, and a multimedia interface that combines data search and explorati...